M&M’s…does anyone NOT like them? For a candy to be so iconic is rare.
M&M’s originated in the United States in 1941, and are now sold in as many as 100 countries. More than 400 million individual M&M’s are produced every day in the United States. They are produced in different colors, some of which have changed over the years. The candy-coated chocolate concept was inspired by a method used to allow soldiers to carry chocolate without having it melt. The company’s longest-lasting slogan reflects this: “Melts in your mouth, not in your hand.”
I like Orange M&M’s, of course. So why not make a T3 logo with them?
First I had to procure a large amount of orange M&M’s. A local candy store I found carries each color separately and sells them by the pound. An individual M&M is about 1.04 cm in diameter. That is less than half an inch. There are about 480 M&M’s in an ounce. I decided that the piece needed to be about 28″ wide (the size of standard poster board) and would therefore require between 1 and 2 lbs of candy. I bought 2.
We poured the M&M’s out onto the poster board and then laid a cutout of the logo onto them. Then we began to carefully remove the M&M’s not covered up. It took some messing with, but finally we were satisfied that the shape looked close to the logo but not too contrived.
Then my son climbed up onto the table to take pictures:
We had to mess with the image a little in LightRoom and Photoshop to correct for color and shape issues, and the result is really tasty!